2019-20 Season Artist Educators

Joseph Glaser, Artist Educator

Joseph Glaser is a recent graduate from Murray State University with a Bachelors degree in Theatre. Coming from a family of actors and educators, he is excited to combine the two disciplines bringing best of both worlds to Kentucky Shakespeare.

He is ready to use Shakespeare’s universal themes and characters to teach this next generation that they are capable of more and in this world where you can be anything, be kind.

Devin May, Artist Educator

Devin May is an actor, director, musician, and educator with 60+ credits in Chicago and Indiana. He was worked with such theatres as Otherworld Theatre, Northlight Theatre, The Arc Theatre, Chicago Scratch, Picnic Players, Cardinal Stage Company, The Jewish Theatre of Bloomington, Monroe County Civic Theatre, and Indiana University Summer Theatre.

In 2018, Devin completed a new works development intensive at the Kennedy Center, in conjunction with the National New Play Network’s MFA Playwright’s Workshop and National Directors Fellowship. He also completed an acting apprenticeship with Boston’s Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in 2016. His favorite show to date was called Super Richard World III, a Richard III/Nintendo Universe mashup by Chicago’s Stupid Shakespeare Company, in which he played Mario, Toad, and Diddy Kong. Yes, it’s technically art. A 2018 Indiana University graduate and Bloomington IN native, Devin enjoys making music and exploring the great outdoors!

Abigail Rose Nakken, Artist Educator

Abigail holds a BFA in Classical Acting and Shakespeare Studies from Southern Utah University. Regionally she’s performed at the Utah Shakespeare Festival and SimonFest Theatre Company. Her collegiate credits include Eurydice in Eurydice, Macbeth in Macbeth, and Queen Elizabeth in Richard III.

Recently, she’s been on the road with the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Shakespeare-in-the-Schools Tour as King Duncan/Witch/Murderer in Macbeth. Abigail has also been an educator for many years, specifically working with the Utah Shakespeare Festival’s Playmakers Program as a teacher and director. This is Abigail’s first season with Kentucky Shakespeare Festival and she is ecstatic to join the team.

Guest Teaching Artists & Instructors

Chris Anger, Guest Workshop/Class Instructor

Workshop: Louisville Improvisors – Finding the ConnectionChris is Co-founder and Artistic Director of the Louisville Improvisors, and has been a professional actor working in improvisation for over 30 years. As artistic director Chris heads up the Louisville Improvisors Training Center facilitating both corporate and private workshops. Chris is co-creator, along with Alec Volz and Brian Hinds, of the Louisville Improvisors’ improvised Shakespeare show Late Night Shakes, which has been performed at the Kentucky Shakespeare Festival since 2013. Chris also teaches improv in schools and universities throughout the Midwest and Southeast.

While performing regularly throughout Kentucky and Indiana over the last 19 years, Chris has also done improv shows in cities around the country including San Francisco, Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Chicago, St. Louis and Nashville among others.

Louisville Improvisors are the hosts and executive producers of Improvapalooza, since the year 2000. It is the longest running Improv Comedy festival in the Southeast, bringing together the best improvisers in the country, including writers, producers and performers from The Simpsons, SNL, The Groundlings and The Daily Show among others. Improvapalooza has also featured the top groups from Louisville, Nashville, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Ft. Wayne, New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago.

Chris has also written and performed 5 solo shows, the latest one Terminal Buses Only will premiere at the 3rd Annual Single Shots Solo Theatre Festival, November 24-25th at The Bard’s Town Theater.

Eric Frantz, Guest Workshop/Class Instructor

Workshop: Stage CombatEric has worked at the Frazier History Museum for over ten years as a Teaching Artist/Historical Interpreter, performing swordfights for the public every day. At the Frazier he leads the research on sword fighting and combat using historical manuals and texts. Eric is excited to have worked with Kentucky Shakespeare for the three consecutive summers. In 2015 Eric choreographed the fight between Macbeth and Macduff, and it remains one of his favorites.

Dathan Hooper, Guest Teaching Artist

Dathan Hooper is a longtime Kentucky Shakespeare actor, most recently playing Aaron in Titus Andronicus, Don Pedro in Much Ado About Nothing and Marcus Brutus in the spring tour and summer productions of Julius Caesar.

Other Kentucky Shakespeare credits include Richard II, The Winter’s Tale, Macbeth, The Merry Wives of Windsor,Hamlet, The Tempest, Pericles and Gammer Gurton’s Needle, as well as the one-actor touring production Shakespeare and Social Change: Ira Aldridge. His other regional credits are with Actors Theatre of Louisville, StageOne, Arkansas Repertory Theatre, The Mule Barn Theatre, The Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles and The Odyssey Theatre Ensemble of Los Angeles. Dathan has television and film credits and is proud of his long relationship with Louisville’s arts community.

Gregory Maupin, Guest Workshop/Class Instructor

Class: Shakespeare Off the PageGregory has appeared in many Kentucky Shakespeare productions since 2004, and he has served as our resident dramaturg for the last four seasons. He has appeared in Much Ado About Nothing (Benedick), Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (Guildenstern), The Taming of the Shrew (Petruchio), A Midsummer Night’s Dream (Bottom), The Two Gentlemen of Verona (Launce), The Tempest(Stephano), Hamlet (Polonius), Twelfth Night (Malvolio), Henry V (Fluellen), and The Dark Lady of the Sonnets (Shakespeare), among others.

He and his wife Abigail co-founded Le Petomane Theatre Ensemble in 2004, co-creating many original works, adapting classics, and building masks; they also perform as Prohibition-era ukulele duo Rannygazoo and co-wrote The Glorious Adventures of the Mighty Robin Hood, produced locally at StageOne Family Theatre. With Actors Theatre: Macbeth, Luna Gale, At the Vanishing Point, Our Town, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, 43 Plays for 43 Presidents, among others. With the Dell’Arte Company: Vaudeville (co-creator); Paradise Lost. With ImprovBoston: Musical! The Musical. Gregory is a graduate of the Dell’Arte International School of Physical Theatre.

Braden McCampbell, Guest Teaching Artist

Braden McCampbell is a former UofL student who did his theater internship with Kentucky Shakespeare and served for two years as an Artist Educator. He is very excited to return for a third year as a Guest Teaching Artist. He has appeared in a few of the companies main stage productions, including his portrayal of Benvolio 2016’s Romeo and Juliet and Edmund in 2019’s King Lear. Braden has also performed on UofL’s main stage through his time there as an undergrad and even traveled to Singapore to perform in the AATP’s Production of The Orphans Revenge, an Afro Centric Version of The Orphan of Xiao in April of 2014.

Keith McGill, Guest Teaching Artist

Keith McGill has been a free-lance theater teacher and workshop leader for over a decade for organizations including Kentucky Shakespeare, Shakespeare Behind Bars, ArtsReach, and Walden Theatre and Actors’ Theatre’s New Voices playwriting program. He has also appeared in productions with various theatre organizations, such as Actors Theatre, Stage One, Louisville Repertory Theatre, and Looking for Lilith Theatre Company. Keith is also a professional stand-up comedian, performing in venues nationwide and internationally for Holland America and Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines.

Alec Volz, Guest Workshop/Class Instructor

Alec is a director / teacher / actor, and co-founder of the Louisville Improvisors.

Born and raised in Louisville, Alec attended Trinity High School and the University of Kentucky where he majored in theater. He later studied acting at the Roundabout Theater Conservatory in New York where he appeared in several forgettable Off-Off Broadway productions.

Alec is co-founder of the Louisville Improvisors. He is co-writer and a performer on The Buddy Gilm Show, an original radio show for the web and LI’s podcast What Happens Next. He has co-lead Louisville Improvisor workshops in Improv For Business for several Fortune 500 Companies. For the company he is most proud to have directed the world premieres of Chris Anger’s Dead Astronauts, Jim Thorpe, All –American, and Animal Farm at the Slant Culture Theatre Festival, and the Louisville Improvisors’ solo festival Single Shots.

Alec Volz spent fifteen seasons at Walden Theatre where, at various times he was the production manager, director, and taught acting and several forms of improvisational theatre. At Walden, Alec is most proud to have directed the regional premiers of My So-Called So-Called Life, When In Disgrace (Haply I Think On Thee), Phantom Band, In The Pony Palace/Football and Jane The Plain all as part of The Slant Culture Theatre Festival. He also directed Henry V, The Taming Of The Shrew, Coriolanus, Richard III, Troilus and Cressida, Antony and Cleopatra, and The Two Noble Kinsmen as part of Walden Theatre’s Young American Shakespeare Festival.

Alec was an artistic associate of Savage Rose Classical Theatre where he directed Chris Anger in KingLear. He has also directed and acted with The Necessary Theatre.

Alec has spent eight summers working as an instructor/director at The Idyllwild Arts Summer Program in Idyllwild, CA. teaching acting and improvisation.

Alec recently returned to the stage after a fifteen-year absence playing Feste in Kentucky Shakespeare’s production of Twelfth Night.

He is a Talking Books narrator for The American Printing House For the Blind, where he has narrated over 200 books, and a commercial voiceover actor. He was the narrator for the web series StalkTalk and can be heard in several museums throughout the country including the Makers Mark museum in Loretto and The World War I museum in Kansas.

He is the author of Sonny’s House Of Spies published by Playscripts and co-author of the play …psychobabblish… .

Megan Massie Ware, Guest Teaching Artist

Megan Massie Ware has been with the Kentucky Shakespeare family for just over 6 years. She joined the spring tour production of Julius Caesar in 2013 and became an Artistic Associate with the company, performing in education tours from 2013-2016 and on the summer stage as Ophelia in Hamlet, Third Witch in Macbeth, and Juliet in Romeo and Juliet, among others.

Other local works include Ton of Bricks with Think Tank Theatre, Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric Play with Theatre 502, The True Story of the Three Little Pigs, Fancy Nancy the Musical, and Curious George and the Golden Meatball at Derby Dinner Playhouse. She was an apprentice with Commonwealth Shakespeare Company in Boston, MA and holds a BFA in Acting from West Virginia University. She is represented by Heyman Talent Agency.

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